Alejandro Varela (he/him) is based in New York. His work has appeared in The Point magazine, Boston Review, Harper’s Magazine, The Rumpus, Joyland Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, The Offing, Blunderbuss Magazine, Pariahs (an anthology, SFA Press, 2016), the Southampton Review, and The New Republic. He was a 2019 Jerome Fellow in Literature, a resident in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s 2017-2018 Workspace program, and a 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Nonfiction. Alejandro’s graduate studies were in public health. His debut novel, The Town of Babylon, is forthcoming from Astra House.